Seattle mayoral candidate James Donaldson rolled out a 32-page plan of his ideas for Seattle last week. He called it, "James Donaldson's Plan for Seattle."He just forgets the part about giving credit where it's due, right?
But parts of Donaldson's plan are copied verbatim from a similar plan released last year by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who, like Donaldson, is a former NBA player.
Donaldson's campaign consultant, Cindi Laws, said she modeled the plan after Johnson's.
"People make these assumptions about athletes being dim ... so I looked at how it had been done," said Laws. "Kevin broke out of the pack by issuing a policy-heavy plan."
Laws said the similarities simply show that Donaldson knows a good idea when he sees one.
Throwaways:
1. When asked his opinion of Seattle's proposed plastic bag tax, Donaldson said, "Hold on, I'm Googling it."
2. Obviously, the way to combat stereotypes is to live them out. A warning, though: cognitive dissonance has a wide radius.
3. Remember, it's not the quality of the plan. It's the combined weight of its policies.
Update: Not the only time Donaldson's gone cut-and-paste happy, I'm afraid.
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